I don't know whether Trump is a goofball or a great American, but it's about time somebody stood up for the American worker.

The amusing thing is:

Progressives and liberals hate him. I posted something favorable about Trump to my FB page and my socially liberal social worker niece (who in reality hardly has a demonstrable clue about some real social pathologies right in her immediate family!!! ) shit all over it: "This guy's a dangerous loose cannon."

A "loose cannon" seems to grasp exactly why the middle class is vanishing. Leading directly to the high level of misery and deprivation in society that creates the demand for social services spending and entitlements.

And the establishment conservatives despise him because he's splitting the base and he doesn't conform to their corporatist agenda. However, I believe he's drawing in some wanna be progressives who are just looking for solutions.

I also really like Trump's anti-interventionism. The US has become too much of an empire. We need to pull back and rebuild our crumbling country.

But all entrenched powers hate him. It tells you how fucking out of touch politicians in general are with the real problems of this country.

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I'm going to have to look at the whole package. I'm not a single-issue voter, but Trump saying this:

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DT: Day one. This is why I got into this race. Because the everyday working person in this country is getting screwed. Lobbyists write the rules to benefit the rich and powerful. They buy off Senators like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% to help them get rich at the expense of working Americans by using H-1B visas–so called “high tech” visas–to replace American workers in all sorts of solid middle class jobs. If I am President, I will not issue any H-1B visas to companies that replace American workers and my Department of Justice will pursue action against them.

is HUGE for me. Although note the qualification: " H-1B visas to companies that replace American workers". I'd prefer something like no H-1B visas, period. I.e. change the law.